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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Irish Colonists on the South Atlantic Coast

This is an important addition to our knowledge regarding migrations. Early Medieval Irish established a settlement in the Southeast. We discover deer husbandry at the least which died out in Ireland during this time period. These were clearly robust thriving communities well able to fend of slavers.

At the same time a cache is discovered with both Bronze and Iron artifacts. I think that these are unrelated but associated with the much earlier Atlantean world which ended in 1159BC but then petered out slowly after that. That iron is in evidence suggests trade with Europe continuing until roman times which is something expected from other sources.

Slowly we are piecing together the North American cultural tapestry. It is far richer than ever expected..

Since this article was first published at Thanksgiving of 2012, we
have found much more proof that there were indeed European settlers on
the South Atlantic Coast long before the French and Spanish of the
Renaissance. Indeed, in 2014, we found an obscure report from the
famous Smithsonian archaeologist, James Ford, that in 1935 he had
excavated numerous bronze and iron, swords, axes, hammers, chisels and
daggers from the south bank of the Altamaha River in Georgia during a
survey of Santo Domingo State Park. Ford attributed these artifacts to
late 16th Spanish explorers.

Ford was only 24 at the time and didn’t even have an undergraduate
degree in archaeology. No bronze weapons had been made in the Iberian
Peninsula, where Spain was later located, after about 5-600 BC.

We also found that the opening page of the first book on Georgia’s
history by William Bacon Stevens specifically stated that the early
British colonists on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia encountered
peoples that were of mixed European and Native ancestry, who spoke a
Medieval dialect of Irish Gaelic.

Since the number of people with European ancestry in
the world, who would know how to build a Gothic cathedral, approaches
the number zero, it is obvious that these great achievements in
architecture were built by skilled Mexican stone masons, directed by
extraterrestrial architects. I sent that profound discovery to the
producers of the History Channel series, Ancient Astronauts. You know
they didn’t even have the courtesy to respond! A feller jest can’t get
no respect!

Pulling y’all’s legs!

Like most of you Native Americans, I have always been highly
irritated by pseudo-scholars who ascribe the construction of
Pre-Columbian architecture to anyone but the indigenous peoples of the
Americas. Earlier this year, some nutty archaeologist with a Ph.D. sent
me a list of the Viking kings of Etalwa (Etowah Mounds.) Her logic was
that since tall skeletons were found at Etowah Mounds, the elite must
have been Vikings! She informed me that Etowah was really an ancient
Viking word meaning eagle. It is actually an English mispronunciation of
Etalwa – the Creek word for a large capital town.

I wrote back that the Creek Indians at the time of contact averaged a
foot taller than Europeans, so the Vikings must have really been Creek
Indians. I sent her a list of Creek Great Suns, who were the real kings
at Roskilde, Bäckviken and Uppsala. She was not amused. She was
absolutely shocked that a Native American had sufficient intellect to
type a Scandinavian word and know its meaning.

Just last week, a self-appointed Islamic scholar on True American
History from Pakistan, now living in Chicago, informed me that the Creek
Indians were really Muslims from North Africa. The great sultan Ali bin
Blah-Blah-Blah had dispatched a fleet to discover America long before
Columbus. Muslim immigrants had built the mounds as bases for great
mosques, but English infidels had torn them down and covered up history.
His proof was that Creek Indians wear turbans and that the word
Muskogee is really an infidel mispronunciation of the word, mosque. I
referred him to the “Vikings built Etowah Mounds” lady in California,
the “Lost tribes of Israel built the mounds” folks in Utah, the
“Cherokees built all the mounds” folks in North Carolina, and the “Space
aliens built all the mounds” expert in Switzerland. A Mosque Indian
feller jest can’t get no respect these days!

Swiss author, Erich von Däniken, began the current craze in 1968,
with the publication of the book, Chariots of the Gods. Von Däniken
particularly was obsessed with the civilizations of the Americas. He
explained almost any structure in the Western Hemisphere, more
sophisticated than a thatch hut, to be the work of extraterrestrial
architects. It is common knowledge that American Indians are
intellectually incapable of designing large buildings and planning
cities.

Unfortunately, forty years of malarkey from Herr Von Däniken has
made him a demigod among a legion of those obsessed with
extraterrestrial things. The ridiculous History Channel series, Ancient
Astronauts, constantly quotes him, like he was the godfather of
archaeology. Excuse me a second. A young bear is in the backyard messing
with my flying saucer. All of the people on the show are earthlings.
How could they possibly give accurate portrayals of us extraterrestrial
architects?

To avoid giving Von Däniken any more time than he is due, let me tell
you this. He only has a high school education. His first felony
conviction occurred at the age of 19 for simple theft. The next year, he
was convicted of fraud and embezzlement in Egypt. He wrote Chariot of
the Gods while manager of a hotel in Switzerland. Shortly before the
book was published, he was arrested for a variety of felonies committed
over a 12 year period. They included income tax evasion, perjury, theft
and financial fraud. He was in prison while writing his second
bestseller book.

Anybody but them savage Injuns!

The first, “anyone but the Indians” craze began in the mid-1770s and
continued until the 1870s, when archaeology started its path toward
becoming a science. As English settlers penetrated the interior of North
America, they encountered the ruins of large towns with mounds up to a
hundred feet tall and many enigmatic stone structures. The English
didn’t want to admit that they had been Johnny-come-lately participants
in the most horrific genocide in the history of mankind. Therefore, they
ascribed these ruins to be vestiges of an ancient civilization, founded
by people from one of the Mediterranean or Middle Eastern
civilizations. Savage Indians had killed off this civilization and
therefore, Europeans had been ordained by God to punish these savages
for their evil deeds and ignorance.

It is plausible that bands of people may have made it across the
Atlantic and Pacific over the centuries. We know that Scandinavians did.
Some ideas from these sporadic arrivals may have been absorbed by
indigenous peoples. It is also plausible that these bands built some
structures and some communities, particularly in the Ohio River Basin. I
am even open to the possibility that there have been some contacts
between humans and visitors from other solar systems. However,
radiocarbon dating and documented artifacts has eliminated the
possibility of the great towns and large ceremonial mounds in the
Eastern United States being anything but the product of the indigenous
cultures of the Americas. That goes for the Hopewell earthworks too.
There are identical geometric earthworks in the Upper Amazon Basin,
which predate the Hopewell Culture.

Here are the facts.

The first great stone circles appeared first in Canada, and then 500
year later in the British Isles. There is increasing evidence that
Stonehenge was built by a people, who were related to American Indians.

The oldest known mound complex in the Western Hemisphere was constructed around 3500 BC. (Watson Brake, LA)

The oldest known North American pottery was found in east-central Georgia. (Stallings Island – c. 2500 BC)

A cluster of large platform villages and mounds in northern
Louisiana were occupied between c. 1650 BC and 700 BC. A group of
credible archaeologists in Louisiana are building evidence that the
founders of the Olmec Civilization came from the Southeast. However,
there are artifacts at Poverty Point which are identical to those made
at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands. There may have been a pan-North
Atlantic Neolithic culture composed of people, who were related to
American Indians. Dr. Gordon Freeman of the University of Alberta is
investigating that hypothesis right now in Wales.

The first cultural fluorescence in the Southeast that involved
permanent agricultural towns and large mounds corresponded exactly to
the cultural fluorescence of the Teotithuacan Valley in Mexico – roughly
200 BC to 750 AD.

The second cultural fluorescence in the Southeast began around 900
AD as the Maya cities were collapsing and continued until European
plagues swept through the region during the late 1500s.

The ancient Hebrews first appeared as a distinct tribe among the
Canaanites around 1200 BC. The Kingdom of Israel was founded around 1050
BC. The “Lost ten tribes of Israel” were sent into exile by the
Assyrians around 750 BC.

A slave raid to the South Atlantic Coast

There is evidence, though, that Gaelic colonists settled the South
Atlantic Coast before Columbus arrived. Right now, the evidence is
confined to sworn testimony from some Spanish explorers. However, you
have to remember that a Spanish Catholic could be burned at the stake
for lying in a sworn deposition made to a priest. Those depositions and
notarized reports that survive from the 1500s, should be taken
seriously.

The year 1521 AD was one of the most important in the history of
Spain. In 1519 Hernán Cortés had led a band of 550 conquistadors and
sailors into the heart of the Aztec Empire, in violation of orders from
the Governor of Cuba, Diego Veláquez, In January 1521 he began a siege
of the three Aztec capital cities of Texcoco, Tlatalolco and
Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs had been greatly weakened by European plagues.
Cut off from food supplies and potable water for weeks, Tenochtitlan,
one of the largest cities in the world, fell. The incalculable amount of
gold and silver in Mexico soon made Spain a super-power.

In early 1521, Spanish colonists elsewhere assumed that Cortés’
insubordinate invasion of Mexico had failed. They had no knowledge of
the vast wealth of Mexico and were looking around for new locations to
found colonies for growing sugar cane and, hopefully, mining gold and
silver. Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quejo secretly sailed ships to
the South Atlantic coast to capture slaves and scout out potential
locations for new colonies. They captured 70 victims from the Chicora
Tribe by inviting them on board the ships to receive gifts, the
shackling them with chains.

One ship sank in a storm on the return voyage to Santo Domingo,
causing its human cargo to drown. When they learned about the abduction,
colonial authorities freed the surviving captives. Word soon spread
throughout Dominca that Cortés had obtained unimaginable wealth in
Mexico, and that La Florida (southeastern North America) was much larger
than explorer Ponce de Leon had assumed.

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, a wealthy sugar cane planter and member of
the Audencia (colonial council) interviewed Gordillo and Quejo, plus an
especially bright Native that they had attempted to enslave, named by
the Spanish, Francisco de Chicora. De Ayllón then compiled a report to
be submitted to the King of Spain that accompanied his petition to be
named the Governor of the future Province of La Florida. King Carlos V
granted Ayllón a charter to colonize La Florida at his own expense and
be made its hereditary noble.

In 1520, Fra. Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, a priest, historian and
professor, was appointed by Carlos V to be chronicler for the new
Council of the Indies. In 1522, he interviewed Francisco de Chicora,
Gordillo, Quejo and Ayllón for weeks then submitted a detailed report to
the king. Martyr died in 1526, but this report was published
posthumously in a book named De Orbe Novo (About the New World.) The
book has been published and translated numerous times in the centuries
since then. The passages concerning the land that would become Georgia
and the Carolinas were always included, but generally ignored.

After some more exploratory voyages, de Ayllón founded a colony in
1526 at location now believed to be near the mouth of the Altamaha River
in Georgia. The colony quickly collapsed due to disease and starvation.
Ayllón was one of those who died. It was abandoned six months after
being settled.

The cheese-makers of Duhare

While Gordillo and Quejo treated the Chicora Indians with treachery,
their relations with the other province along that section of the
Atlantic Coast were peaceful. Peter Martyr recorded its name as Duhare.
It was one of the more powerful provinces in the region.

The inhabitants of Duhare were described as being Europeans, who
seemed to possess few metal tools. There are no metal ores in the South
Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Duhare had red to brown hair, tan skin and
gray eyes. The men wore full beards and were much taller than the
Spanish. Spanish accounts clearly labeled the people of Duhare,
Caucasians, even though they stated that the houses and pottery of
Duhare were similar to those of American Indians.

The people of Duhare were also skilled farmers. They grew large
quantities of Indian corn, plus another grain, which the Spanish did not
recognize. They also grew several varieties of potatoes and all the
other vegetables that had been developed in the New World.

The king of Duhare was named Datha. He was described by the Spanish
as being a giant, even when compared to his peers. He had five children
and a wife as tall as him. Datha had brightly colored paint or tattoos
on his skin that seemed to distinguish him from the commoners.

In many respects, the Duhare had similar lifestyles to neighboring
American Indian provinces, for one exception . . . they raised many
types of livestock including chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese and deer.

According to all Spanish sources, the Duhare maintained large herds
of domesticated deer and made cheese from deer milk! The excess male
deer population was fattened with corn for butchering. The deer stayed
in corrals within the villages at night, but grazed in herds in the day
time, accompanied by “deer-herders” and herd dogs. Neighboring Native
peoples knew not to hunt them.

Several Spanish sources, including de Ayllón, stated that the Duhare
owned some horses. However, when interviewed by Martyr, Francisco de
Chicora could not confirm or deny the presence of horses.

History lost in the fine print

In 1922 the Smithsonian Institute published, Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors
by renowned ethnologist, John W. Swanton. It included much of Martyr’s
passages on Duhare, but was prefaced with contemptuous remarks by
Swanton that the story couldn’t be true and that the Duhare were
probably a Siouan tribe.

In 1998 a version of the book, edited by famous archaeologist, Gerald
Millanich, was published by the University of Florida Press. It also
contained the description of Duhare, but again the editor and all
readers assumed that Swanton’s assessment was accurate.

For the past 500 years, European and North American scholars have
totally discounted the descriptions of Duhare because they knew for a
fact that American Indians didn’t make cheese; that there is no such
thing as a dairy deer; and that there were no chickens or domestic geese
in the Americas until the Europeans arrived. These scholars also knew
that the cultivation of the potato was limited to the Andean region
until introduced to other regions by the Spanish.

That being said . . . guess what y’all? In my earlier life, I started
the first licensed goat cheese creamery east of California. It would
have been the first in the nation, but North Carolina officials dragged
their feet for many months, trying to figure out how to give me a
license for an agricultural activity that was not listed in state laws.

The generally available translations of the descriptions of Duhare
leave out details from the original book, published over 500 years ago.
Those details involved descriptions of cheese making and animal
husbandry. I wondered how Spanish sea captains could fabricate authentic
details of the cheese-making process? An anthropologist sitting in his
or her office in Washington, DC or Tallahassee probably would not catch
the significance of the details, but I did.

The Spanish soldiers may have observed Chamoisee dairy goats being
herded and milked. The goats of Spain are descended from a short wild
goat with curly hair called a capra prisca. The wild Chamois goat of
northern Europe is similar in appearance and size to a North American
white tail deer.

Many contemporary archaeology programs in the United States most
frequently reward those students, who regurgitate whatever their
professor told them to believe. This can be a problem, when an authority
figure was in error. Once the data is obtained from careful excavation,
or advanced technology, interpretation of a situation requires powerful
deductive reasoning and as broad an education as possible . . . the
ability to think outside the box.

While investigating the similarity of Irish Bronze Age petroglyphs to
those in the North Georgia Mountains, I stumbled across this ancient
Irish lullaby, called Bainne nam fiadh. ” On milk of deer I was
reared. On milk of deer I was nurtured. On milk of deer I ran beneath
the ridge of storms on crest of hill and mountain.”

I immediately contacted the newly opened Consul General of the
Republic of Ireland in Atlanta. A lovely Irish lassie with an enchanting
lilt in her voice, put me in contact with the Irish cultural attaché in
New York City. The attaché put me in touch with a highly respected
anthropologist in Ireland. He said that Duhare is Early Medieval Gaelic.
It can either be translated as “place of the Clan Hare” . . . or if the
Duhare came from west of the Shannon River, it meant, “du’hEir – place
of the Irish.” The meaning of “aire” or “eire” in Roman Period Gaelic
was “coast.” So Duhare could also mean “Coastal People.”

The story gets better! The Irish anthropologist told me that “Yes, indeed . . . the Irish DID domesticate an indigenous deer in Neolithic times and develop it into a dairy animal.
There were also tribes in western Scotland and the Orkneys, who
originally raised dairy deer. The raising of dairy deer ceased in most
of Ireland during the 1200s, when the French monks, who accompanied the
Norman invaders introduced dairy cattle. One tribe in western Ireland
continued to make cheese from deer milk for awhile, but it soon
disappeared from Ireland.

Linguistics placed the time of the immigration of the Duhare to North
America somewhere in the period after Romans left Britannia, most
likely the Early Medieval Period. The presence of dairy deer probably
made the voyage no later than the 1200s AD.

Datha was a standard Roman Period or Medieval Irish Gaelic word that
means “painted.” Since the Spanish recorded that the chief named Datha
covered his skin with pigments or tattoos, as was traditional among the
Celts, this name makes perfect sense.

The first book published on the history of Georgia by William Bacon
Stevens opened with a statement that early colonists on the coasts of
Georgia encountered mixed Native-Irish inhabitants, who spoke the Gaelic
language. He provided references to Medieval journals in France and
Ireland, which described multiple voyages to Witmannsland in the 1100s
by Irish Gaelic Christians, who were escaping persecution by the Roman
Catholic Church. Norse Christian mariners provided the boats to
transport them across the Atlantic.

In 1935, Smithsonian archaeologist, James Ford surveyed the new
Santo Domingo State Park on the South Channel of the Altamaha River in
Georgia to determine its eligibility for inclusion in the new National
Park System. He determined that the tabby ruins were not those of the
Mission Santo Domingo de Talaxe, but “only” an 18th century sugar mill.
While digging test holes at the state park, Ford unearthed several
bronze and iron axes, swords, hammers, wedges and daggers. He
interpreted them to be debris left by Late 16th Spanish explorers. No
one made bronze weapons in the Iberian Peninsula after around 5-600
BC. The 24 year old Ford didn’t know that.

The amazing bronze and iron weapons and tools were on display at the
Santo Domingo State Park Museum until 1947. Supposedly, they were put
into storage somewhere when the park became an orphanage. An inquiry
about the whereabouts of these priceless artifacts to the State Parks
and Historic Sites Director did not receive a response.

The Warren Wilson Village Site

There is one more intriguing detail. While I was Director of the
Asheville-Buncombe Historic Resources Commission, North Carolina
archaeologists unearthed a Late Mississippian Period village next to the
Swannanoa River on the Warren Wilson College campus. It was abandoned
around 1500 AD.

The village’s architecture and pottery was pretty much the same as
what contemporary Lamar Culture Muskogeans were making in Georgia, but
the village plan was not. The oval shaped community contained no mound,
but had a defensive timber palisade around its periphery like most Lamar
Culture villages. HOWEVER, there was another oval shaped palisade inside
the ring of houses. Archaeologists were puzzled by the function of the
inner palisade, which seemed to be made of stakes rather than stout
timbers.

When archaeologist, Roy Dickens, sketched the village on the
Swannanoa River as an illustration of what he called a Cherokee Pisgah
Culture settlement, he left out the inner stockade. It couldn’t be
explained and he didn’t want people to question his “Cherokee” label on a
Mississippian village. Twentieth century archaeologists didn’t like to
talk about things which would make them seem less than omniscient.

The inner stockade puzzled me. I remembered visiting a reproduction
of an Iron Age Celtic village in England. The Celtic houses were little
different than Muskogean houses. The center of the village was a
stockade formed by wooden stakes where livestock animals were kept at
night. The animals were allowed to graze in the surrounding pastures and
woodlands in the day time. Well, I didn’t know diddlysquat about
Southeastern archaeology back then anyway. What could possibly be the
connection between a pre-Roman Period village in England and a Native
American village near the Ancient Capital of the Great Cherokee Nation?

However, now . . . after the research done on the Duhare . . . I am
beginning to wonder. Did the hybrid Gaelic people, who occupied the
province on the South Atlantic Coast, also occupy villages in the
Piedmont and Southern Highlands? Was the Pisgah Culture a hybrid
Shawnee-Muskogean-Gaelic culture? There was no such thing as a Cherokee back then.
You can count on one hand the number of Late Mississippian villages
comprehensively studied in the South Carolina Upper Piedmont and western
North Carolina Mountains. There is no real way of knowing. The truth is
out there somewhere.

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